(Guess what Event in the chapter relates to the Title of the Chapter and leave the answer in the comment section.)
I have been travelling for almost 2 days now and one thing is clear, I can live in this world without regrets. Frey might miss me but that's what she gets for keeping the company's bad plans a secret from me.
As for my sister, I am sure she went to the same room I did. There is a high chance she is here. I hope she is.
I encountered various animals, some friendly some deadly, but I survived using this amazing ability that the demon gave me.
Steadily the theme of the forest changes from green lively to burnt and barren with burnt trees.
It must have been a forest fire. But it didn't spread which means that either it rained or someone put it out. The soil still has moisture.
I catch a clanging sound at a distance so I head over in that direction while navigating through the almost burnt area of the forest into the denser part, After a couple of minutes I arrive back into another burnt patch of forest, where I see some green humanoids so I hide behind a boulder, who wouldn't know about these nasty creatures, they are for sure goblins.
They have surrounded a man, he looks like a dwarf, but aren't dwarves supposed to be smaller in height? He looks about my height.
The dwarf has a hammer with a short handle and a big hammerhead. I can hear them even though I am at so much distance,it should be approx 12 to 15 meters from here.
"dwarf come, he lives, not, then die. King orders." A goblin with a staff says.
"you and your king may as well have a taste of my thunder. You will make into a fine meal for the soil here." The dwarf says as he jumps in the air and attacks the goblins, instantly smashing the head of one goblin. The others move back and make a decent formation.
"Maybe I should help him?." As I think the dwarf jumps in the air but this time he levitates as clouds form and thunder strikes on the goblins.
Only one thing comes to mind. "Thor the Norse god of thunder. Do gods live in this world?"
But the dwarf's attack has less effect as the mage with staff protects himself and the other goblins with a magic barrier.
"dwarf kill our brothers, finally tired. Now we kill.!" Says the mage commanding the other goblins to attack while moving back behind the formation.
I get out of the boulder's cover. The dwarf sees me so I gesture to him to keep quiet as I sneak behind the mage while crouched as the sun is behind me which could cause my shadow to blow my plans.
The dwarf's perspective:
"Is that a demon? Oh no, I am already exhausted because of these green savages chasing me for days, and now a demon? I can't fight I must find a way to escape."
"wait, why is he sneaking behind the mage? And the mage can't sense him?"
The dwarf is confused.
The goblin mage's perspective:
"finally me go home, me get reward, king and master happy."
A shadow rises behind him.
"huh? Who, behind!!?" he thinks but it's too late, Ronin twists the mage's neck but something feels off. The mage gets away and chants something.
"Nature heals all: minor health," the goblin says which fixes his neck.
"Hey! The goblin's bodies are more flexible so that won't work!" the dwarf shouts.
"shit" that's what I say knowing how bad I messed up.
"Sun is fire, fire is hot: Flame shot!" the goblin says and a fireball forms at the tip of his staff and shoots at me. I am confused and barely dodge it.
The goblin moves away and casts another spell before I can gain footing.
" bless us with rain: sun shards," he says, but I don't see anything forming at his staff.
"Above you, Dodge!" the dwarf shouts while fighting the goblins.
I look up, time seems to slow as I watch multiple sharp fires dropping on me. I cover my head with my left hand.
Goblin's Perspective:
"Haha, see, your friend, I killed."
There is smoke all around where Ronin was.
The goblin mage turns toward the dwarf to attack him
"Now u know, me powerful, now u die."
The dwarf sees a shadow rise in the smoke and walks out of the smoke.
"He is fine even after that?" the dwarf thinks
Ronin picks his spear from behind and without activating its plasma tip he smacks the mage goblin hard in his temple. After some thought, he pits his spear back and grabs the goblin from his neck.
"Try that again, please," I say trying my best to not kill the goblin from suffocation.
It seems like he is too scared to do so.
"Who you? Please, no-kill, I slave, your slave. No kill." The goblin says as tears roll down his eyes. From history books and movies, I know one thing. Never trust goblins. But I let him go. Earlier that fire didn't even tickle. Was that luck? I wanna try again.
Meanwhile, the dwarf has finished on his side and shoots a thunderbolt which kills the mage instantly.
"Hey! I wanted this guy alive. "
"Thank you for your help demon. But that guy chased me down for 10 days without letting me rest, eat, or do anything in peace. Why did you help me? are you not in the demon lord's army?"
"Woah Woah, did you just judge me based on my black suit? I am a human, not a demon."
"that's fine and all but you can't hide your identity when you are freely swinging your demon hand around." He says feeling suspicious.
"yeah, makes sense why you thought that. Wait a moment."
I take off my mask which seems to shock the dwarf.
"by the gods how is this possible?" he says
"Well, maybe we can talk while walking. I want to get out of this forest and I would assume you want the same?"
"Gladly, My name is Warzheil, I don't want the lich to find me so let's leave here."
We walk as the dwarf adjusts his armor as we walk and I tell him my side of the story.
"Oh now I get why you are speaking in demon tongue, So it's called ingulish in your world, huh?"
"Hey, don't you have any suspicion of whether I am lying?"
"Yeah, but after what you told me you are not from around here. You are right, I would be suspicious if it weren't for the current situation. You see, there was a Dragon who became a god by worshipping a god that no one other than him believed in, as a blessing and fruit of his devotion his god gave him powers that made him stronger than the current god-king. We call him Drax. "
"What does that have to do with me?" I ask
"It is related to you for sure. You see Drax was my friend and around 3 days ago he used a summoning ritual that used up most of his powers. A dragon named Zamba was waiting for such a chance and used it to fight Drax in his all-time weak state. He requested me beforehand just in case something like this happened to find the avatar of the god he summoned. If you are from the Earth that mythologies tell of then you are for sure the guy I was trying to find."
"Wait a second. I wasn't pulled in by a portal though, I..." Not sure what exactly happened back then, I trailed off.
"Don't worry, even if you deny it your left eye says it all."
"my left eye?"
What does he mean he can tell from my left eye? Is that some kind of a phase here?
Seeing me confused Warzheil pulls out a small mirror out of an even smaller pocket. How did that even fit a mirror so big and still stay spherical?!!
He brings the mirror closer to my face. My left eye!! It looks the same as the black ball that shot a laser at the demon in my dreams, my pupil is jet black. That explains why I was seeing the outlines of all the things I see. Even my face looks like I am back to being in my '20s.
"I don't know much but I have seen this symbol in your eye on the OM's statue and on the book Drax trusted to me to give to the avatar. But we need to get to my old forge since that's where my second hammer, many precious metals, and that book is."
"But things don't match. Can't Drax tell me those things? Or did he...." I stop realizing what may have happened upon seeing Warzheil's expression drop."
"He was a nice guy despite being powerful you know. He never belittled other mortals and says he was mortal once too. He had lived for 100 thousand years from the Dark War Age till now he was searching for a way to save the world from who knows what. He said only my god can save us."
"I'm sorry, I was just being rude because I felt like being dragged into all this."
"Well, why worry? You are a testament to his belief in his god that I thought didn't even exist. You will find your answer in that book but the way is not easy. My old forge is surrounded by goblins and their species. I escaped them when the demon lord left for the demon continent so I got late and arrived 3 days later while being chased by those green mongrels." He says trying to lift the sad mod.
There are still too many things I don't get but I guess time will tell.
"but, before we leave there is a crucial task at hand," Warzheil says in a low but serious voice.
"I don't know about your world but humans here will want to get their hands on Drax's bones and if that were to happen they would turn them into god-slaying weapons and no one will be able to stop them. We need to get to Drax before they do, it's not too far away but we need to go fast."
"make a weapon out of a dead body? Even I have never done something hell awful as that." I say feeling disgusted.
"Right? Even demons don't do that except for a lich or a bone demon."
"Which reminds me, which demon combined with you?"
I turn my head feeling guilty.
"Don't tell me..."
It seems like he guessed it.
"yeah, it was some demon named Geolard."
Warzheil stops walking so I turn to see his face, I will never forget that look on his face, his blond hair covering a part of his face with a mustache and a big beard hiding most expressions but not this one. This expression defines fear, which I have seen on most of my victim's faces in the past.
"Do you mean the ancient demon lord Geolard?"
"ye-yes, now that I remember it he did say he was the 126th demon lord."
"Legends has it that he was strong enough to fight against gods even in his 3rd awakening. I fear what kind of monster you might turn into."
"well, Drax called me the avatar of his god so maybe this is fate?"
"Fate my ass, you are less god and more of a monster now. You better hide that Eye and that arm or else it will be hard for you to go into any city except for those run by demons, also don't speak in ingulish in front of any other race except for demons. Speak in this language." He says and then goes on to speak in Hindi.
" Woah, you guys also know Hindi?"
" it is said to have been taught by one of the primordial gods named Hanuman. He also came from Earth."
"wow, I wanna know more about who else came from Earth here."
"oh a lover of history, hmm?, so do you know Heracles?"
"yes yes......." And we talk as we jog.
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